The heartfelt desire shared by people everywhere for an historic agreement dramatically reducing nuclear weapons could and indeed will be achieved, provided one condition changes: The Soviet Government must start negotiating in good faith.
Remarks to Reporters Announcing New United States Initiatives in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks
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We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.
These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.
The strength of our nation has never been with the Washington colony but with the American people.
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